4 For if he that cometh preacheth another aJesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another bgospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.

5 For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

6 But though I bearude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.

7 Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God afreely?

9 And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was achargeable to no man: for that which was blacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia csupplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.

10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

11 Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.

12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they aglory, they may be found even as we.

13 For such areafalse apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.

14 And no marvel; for aSatan himself is transformed into an bangel of light.

15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose aend shall be according to their works.

16 I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool areceive me, that I may bboast myself a little.

17 That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.

18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.

19 For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.

20 For ye suffer, if a man bring you into abondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.

21 I speak as concerning areproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.

22 Are they aHebrews? so am I. Are they bIsraelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.

23 Are they aministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) bIam more; in clabours more abundant, in dstripes above measure, in eprisons more frequent, in deaths oft.

25 Thrice was I abeaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;

26 In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine ownacountrymen, in perils by the bheathen, incperils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;

27 In aweariness and bpainfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

28 Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.